List of participants in the coalition negotiations between CDU / CSU and SPD in 2018

The list of participants in the coalition negotiations between CDU / CSU and SPD 2018 lists the people who took part in the coalition negotiations between the Union parties and the SPD that took place after the 2017 federal election .

On January 28, 2018, negotiations began, which should lead to the formation of a grand coalition ( Merkel IV cabinet ). The mentioned activities as parliamentary state secretaries relate to the 18th legislative period of the German Bundestag

Three-way round

• Angela Merkel , CDU Chairwoman and Executive Chancellor
• Horst Seehofer , CSU chairman and Bavarian Prime Minister
• Martin Schulz , SPD chairman

Small round

CDU

• Angela Merkel , CDU Chairwoman and Executive Chancellor
• Volker Kauder , chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Peter Altmaier , Executive Minister for Special Tasks , Head of the Federal Chancellery and come on. Federal Minister of Finance
• Volker Bouffier , Prime Minister of Hesse , head of the Hessian CDU and deputy CDU federal chairman
• Michael Grosse-Brömer , first parliamentary director of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group

CSU

• Horst Seehofer , CSU chairman and Bavarian Prime Minister
• Alexander Dobrindt , chairman of the CSU regional group in the German Bundestag
• Andreas Scheuer , Secretary General of the CSU
• Markus Blume , Vice Secretary General of the CSU

SPD

• Martin Schulz , SPD chairman
• Andrea Nahles , chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group
• Lars Klingbeil , General Secretary of the SPD
• Malu Dreyer , Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate and Deputy SPD Chairwoman
• Manuela Schwesig , Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Deputy SPD Chairwoman
• Olaf Scholz , First Mayor of Hamburg , head of the SPD Hamburg and deputy SPD chairman

Big round

CDU

• Angela Merkel , CDU Chairwoman and Executive Chancellor
• Volker Kauder , chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Peter Altmaier , Executive Minister for Special Tasks , Head of the Federal Chancellery and come on. Federal Minister of Finance
• Volker Bouffier , Prime Minister of Hesse , head of the Hessian CDU and deputy CDU federal chairman
• Michael Grosse-Brömer , first parliamentary director of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Bernd Althusmann MdL, state chairman of the CDU in Lower Saxony
• Helge Braun Member of the Bundestag, Minister of State
• Ralph Brinkhaus Member of the Bundestag, deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Daniel Caspary MEP, chairman of the CDU / CSU group in the European Parliament
• Gitta Connemann Member of the Bundestag, deputy chairwoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Hermann Gröhe MdB, member of the CDU federal executive committee, federal minister
• Monika Grütters MP, Member of the CDU Presidium, Minister of State
• Daniel Günther MdL, advisory member of the CDU Presidium, Prime Minister
• Stephan Harbarth Member of the Bundestag, deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Reiner Haseloff MdL, advisory member of the CDU Presidium, Prime Minister
• Christian Hirte Member of the Bundestag, deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Julia Klöckner MdL, deputy CDU chairwoman
• Vincent Kokert MdL, state chairman of the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer MdL, member of the CDU Presidium, Prime Minister
• Michael Kretschmer , advisory member of the CDU Presidium, Prime Minister
• Armin Laschet MdL, Deputy CDU Chairman, Prime Minister
• Karl-Josef Laumann , member of the CDU presidium
• Katja Leikert Member of the Bundestag, deputy chairwoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Ursula von der Leyen MdB, Deputy CDU Chairwoman, Federal Minister
• Carsten Linnemann MdB, member of the CDU federal executive committee
• Thomas de Maizière MP, Member of the CDU Presidium, Federal Minister
• Nadine Schön MdB, deputy chairwoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Jens Spahn MdB, Member of the CDU Presidium, Parl. State Secretary
• Thomas Strobl , deputy CDU chairman
• Arnold Vaatz MdB, deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Johann Wadephul MdB, deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Sabine Weiss MdB, member of the CDU federal executive committee
• Annette Widmann-Mauz Member of the Bundestag, Member of the CDU Federal Executive, Parl. State Secretary

CSU

SPD

• Martin Schulz , SPD chairman
• Andrea Nahles , chairman of the SPD parliamentary group
• Lars Klingbeil , General Secretary of the SPD
• Carsten Schneider , First Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group
• Malu Dreyer , Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate and Deputy SPD Chairwoman
• Natascha Kohnen , state chairwoman of the BayernSPD and deputy SPD chairwoman
• Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel , State Chairman of the SPD Hesse and Deputy SPD Chairman
• Olaf Scholz , First Mayor of Hamburg , head of the SPD Hamburg and deputy SPD chairman
• Manuela Schwesig , Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Deputy SPD Chairwoman
• Ralf Stegner , chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament and deputy chairman of the SPD
• Stephan Weil , Prime Minister of Lower Saxony and Chairman of the SPD Lower Saxony
• Anke Rehlinger , Saarland Minister for Economic Affairs
• Michael Groschek , chairman of the SPD NRW
• Katarina Barley , acting Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and come. Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs
• Sigmar Gabriel , Executive Foreign Minister
• Barbara Hendricks , acting Federal Minister for the Environment
• Heiko Maas , Executive Minister of Justice
• Aydan Özoğuz , Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor
• Brigitte Zypries , acting Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
• Martin Dulig , Saxon State Minister for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport and Chairman of the SPD Saxony
• Udo Bullmann , MEP and person in charge of the party executive for the European Union
• Dietmar Nietan , Member of the Bundestag and Federal Treasurer of the SPD
• Eva Högl , Member of the Bundestag
• Leni Breymaier , Member of the Bundestag and Chairwoman of the SPD Baden-Württemberg
• Christine Lambrecht , Member of the Bundestag
• Katja Mast , Member of the Bundestag
• Hubertus Heil , MP and member of the SPD party executive
• Matthias Miersch , MP and member of the SPD party executive
• Klara Geywitz , MdL Brandenburg and member of the SPD party executive
• Svenja Schulze , General Secretary of the SPD NRW
• Doris Ahnen , Rhineland-Palatinate State Minister for Finance
• Katja Pähle , chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt
• Carsten Sieling , President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• Dietmar Woidke , Prime Minister of Brandenburg and Chairman of the Brandenburg SPD
• Michael Müller , Governing Mayor of Berlin and Chairman of the SPD Berlin

Steering group

CDU

• Peter Altmaier , Executive Minister for Special Tasks , Head of the Federal Chancellery and come on. Federal Minister of Finance
• Helge Braun , Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor
• Michael Grosse-Brömer , first parliamentary director of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group

CSU

• Andreas Scheuer , Secretary General of the CSU
• Stefan Müller , parliamentary director of the CSU regional group

SPD

• Lars Klingbeil , General Secretary of the SPD
• Carsten Schneider , First Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group

Working groups

18 working groups were formed. The chief negotiator of each party is responsible for the management.

Europe

Chief negotiator: Peter Altmaier (CDU), Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), Martin Schulz (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Daniel Caspary
• Gunther Krichbaum
• Michael Stübgen
• David McAllister
• Lucia Puttrich

CSU

• Manfred Weber
• Florian Hahn
• Beate Merk

SPD

• Achim Post (Co-Chairman), Member of the Bundestag and General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Europe (SPE)
• Jens Geier (Co-Chairman), MEP and chairman of the German group within the parliamentary group
• Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann
• Constanze Krehl
• Christine Lambrecht
• Jo linen

Economy and bureaucracy reduction

Chief negotiator: Thomas Strobl (CDU), Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), Brigitte Zypries (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Joachim Pfeiffer
• Mathias Middelberg
• Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut
• Mike Mohring
• Rudiger Kruse

CSU

• Peter Ramsauer
• Andreas Lenz
• Karl Holmeier

SPD

• Dietmar Woidke (Co-Chairman), Prime Minister of Brandenburg and Chairman of the Brandenburg SPD
• Martin Dulig
• Matthias Machnig
• Sabine Poschmann
• Rolf Bösinger

Transport and infrastructure

Chief negotiator: Daniel Günther (CDU), Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), Sören Bartol (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Arnold Vaatz
• Steffen Bilger
• Patrick Schnieder
• Enak Ferlemann
• Oliver Wittke

CSU

• Ulrich Lange
• Daniela Ludwig
• Karl Holmeier

SPD

• Alexander Schweitzer (Co-Chairman), Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
• Andreas Rieckhof
• Anke Rehlinger
• Kirsten Lühmann
• Kathrin Schneider
• Martin Burkert

Work, social affairs and pensions

Chief negotiator: Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU), Stephan Stracke (CSU), Andrea Nahles (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Carsten Linnemann
• Sabine Weiss
• Peter White
• Ralf Brauksiepe
• Manfred Grund

CSU

SPD

• Carsten Sieling (Co-Chairman), President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler
• Kerstin Tack
• Anette Kramme
• Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller
• Kerstin Griese

Families, women, youth and senior citizens, including promoting democracy

Chief negotiator: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU), Angelika Niebler (CSU), Katarina Barley (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Marcus Weinberg
• Nadine Schön
• Otto Wulff
• Paul Ziemiak
• Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

CSU

• Emilia Müller
• Paul Lehrieder
• Silke Launert

SPD

• Katja Mast (Co-Chairman), Member of the Bundestag
• Sönke Rix
• Caren Marks
• Melanie Leonhard
• Elke Ferner

Education and Research

Chief negotiator: Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Stephan Müller (CSU), Manuela Schwesig (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Ralf Alexander Lorz
• Stefan Kaufmann
• Thomas Rachel
• Karin Prien
• Tankred Schipansky

CSU

• Ludwig Spaenle
• Albert Rupprecht
• Wolfgang Stefinger

SPD

• Hubertus Heil (Co-Chairman), Member of the Bundestag
• Svenja Schulze
• Oliver Kaczmarek
• Eva Quante-Brandt
• Ties raven
• Ernst Dieter Rossmann

Digital

Chief negotiator: Helge Braun (CDU), Dorothee Bär (CSU), Lars Klingbeil (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Nadine Schön
• Thomas Jarzombek
• Jens Koeppen
• Thomas Heilmann
• Jörg Müller-Lietzkow , holder of the chair for media economics and media management at the University of Paderborn and spokesman for the CDU-affiliated network policy association cnetz

CSU

• Hansjörg Durz
• Reinhard Brandl
• Hans-Peter Friedrich , former Federal Minister of the Interior. D.

SPD

• Heike Raab (Co-Chairman), State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs Rhineland-Palatinate
• Björn Böhning
• Saskia Esken
• Jens Zimmermann
• Martin Rosemann
• Laura Krause and Henning Tillmann for the SPD-affiliated network policy association D64

Health and care

Chief negotiator: Hermann Gröhe (CDU), Georg Nüßlein (CSU), Malu Dreyer (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Hermann Gröhe
• Stefan Grüttner
• Karin Maag
• Rudolf Henke
• Dietrich Monstadt
• Erwin Rüddel

CSU

• Melanie Huml
• Barbara Stamm
• Emmi Zeulner
• Erich Irlstorfer

SPD

• Karl Lauterbach (Co-Chairman), Member of the Bundestag
• Cornelia Prüfer-Storcks
• Carola Reimann
• Boris Velter
• Stefanie Drese

Finance and taxes

Chief negotiator: Peter Altmaier (CDU), Andreas Scheuer (CSU), Olaf Scholz (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Ralph Brinkhaus
• Eckhardt Rehberg
• Antje Tillmann
• Thomas Schäfer
• Christian von Stetten

CSU

• Hans Michelbach
• Alois Karl
• Alexander Radwan

SPD

• Christine Lambrecht (Co-Chairman), Member of the Bundestag
• Mathias Brodkorb
• Lothar Binding
• Johannes Kahrs
• Doris ancestors

Inside, law and consumer protection

Chief negotiator: Thomas de Maizière (CDU), Stephan Mayer (CSU), Heiko Maas (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Stephan Harbarth
• Günter Krings
• Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker
• Lorenz Caffier
• Peter Beuth
• Mechthild Heil

CSU

• Joachim Herrmann
• Winfried Bausback
• Andrea Lindholz

SPD

• Boris Pistorius (Co-Chairman), Lower Saxony Minister for the Interior and Sport
• Eva Högl
• Burkhard Lischka
• Sarah Ryglewski
• Ulrich Kelber
• Johannes Fechner

Migration, integration

Chief negotiator: Volker Bouffier (CDU), Joachim Herrmann (CSU), Ralf Stegner (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Thomas de Maizière
• Armin Schuster
• Herbert Reul
• Klaus Bouillon
• Serap Guler

CSU

• Andreas Scheuer
• Thomas Kreuzer
• Michael Frieser

SPD

• Eva Högl (co-chair), Member of the Bundestag, and deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group
• Aydan Özoguz
• Karamba Diaby
• Rudiger Veit
• Susi Möbbeck
• Petra Köpping

Housing construction, rents, urban development

Chief negotiator: Bernd Althusmann (CDU), Kurt Gribl (CSU), Natascha Kohnen (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Jan-Marco Luczak , Member of the Bundestag
• Michael Meister
• Volkmar Vogel
• Hendrik Hoppenstedt
• Ina Scharrenbach

CSU

• Daniela Ludwig
• Anja Weisgerber
• Alexander Hoffmann

SPD

• Michael Müller (Co-Chairman), Governing Mayor of Berlin and Chairman of the SPD Berlin
• Dorothee Stapelfeldt
• Michael Groß / Klaus Mindrup
• Ulrich Maly
• Florian Pronold
• Frank Baranowski

Municipalities, rural areas

Chief negotiator: Reiner Haseloff (CDU), Kurt Gribl (CSU), Michael Groschek (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Michael Grosse-Brömer
• Christian Haase
• Heike Brehmer
• Gitta Connemann
• Vincent Kokert

CSU

• Alois Rainer
• Florian Oßner
• Marlene Mortler

SPD

• Leni Breymaier (Co-Chairman), Member of the Bundestag and Chairwoman of the SPD Baden-Württemberg
• Bernhard Daldrup
• Frank Baranowski
• Bettina Wilhelm
• Michael Ebling
• Patrick Dahlemann

Agriculture

Chief negotiator: Julia Klöckner (CDU), Christian Schmidt (CSU), Anke Rehlinger (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Alois Gerig
• Maria Flachsbarth
• Christina Schulze-Föcking
• Peter Bleser
• Peter year

CSU

• Helmut Brunner
• Marlene Mortler
• Artur Auernhammer

SPD

• Rita Hagl-Kehl (Co-Chair), Member of the Bundestag
• Rainer Spiering
• Till Backhaus
• Alexander Schweitzer

Energy, climate protection, the environment

Chief negotiator: Armin Laschet (CDU), Georg Nüßlein (CSU), Barbara Hendricks (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Daniel Günther
• Thomas Bareiß
• Andreas Jung
• Marie-Luise Dött
• Peter Liese
• Ingo Senftleben

CSU

• Ilse Aigner
• Thomas Kreuzer
• Anja Weisgerber

SPD

• Matthias Miersch (Co-Chairman), MP and member of the SPD party executive
• Dietmar Nietan
• Bernd Westphal and Carsten Träger
• Albrecht Gerber and Olaf Lies
• Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter
• Christian level

Foreign, Development, Defense and Human Rights

Chief negotiator: Ursula von der Leyen (CDU), Gerd Müller (CSU), Sigmar Gabriel (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Jürgen Hardt
• Johann Wadephul
• Henning Otte
• Norbert Röttgen
• Hans-Joachim Fuchtel
• Michael Brand

CSU

• Florian Hahn
• Thomas Silberhorn
• Alexander Radwan

SPD

• Rolf Mützenich (Co-Chairman), Member of the Bundestag
• Bärbel Kofler
• Niels Annen
• Gabi Weber
• Fritz Felgentreu
• Thomas Hitschler
• Michelle Müntefering

Art, culture, creative industries and media

Chief negotiator: Monika Grütters (CDU), Dorothee Bär (CSU), Michael Roth (SPD)

Other members

CDU

• Michael Grosse-Brömer
• Marco Wanderwitz
• Eckhard Pols
• Oliver Schenk
• Elisabeth Motschmann

CSU

• Michael Frieser
• Marcel Huber
• Markus Blume

SPD

• Carsten Brosda (Co-Chairman), Senator of the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media
• Michelle Müntefering
• Martin Rabanus
• Tim Renner
• Babette winter

Working method government and parliamentary groups

Chief negotiator: Volker Kauder , Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU), Horst Seehofer , Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), Andrea Nahles , Carsten Schneider (SPD)

Other members

CDU

CSU

SPD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GroKo negotiations: Union and SPD define positions . In: Spiegel Online . January 28, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 28, 2018]).
2. ↑ Negotiating team + timetable. SPD, accessed on January 28, 2018 . 
3. ↑ GroKo-Poker: Negotiation groups 4, 8 and 11 become a problem for Merkel . In: Focus Online . January 26, 2018 ( focus.de [accessed April 16, 2019]).
4. ↑ Digital politics: own working group in the coalition negotiations . In: UdL Digital . January 30, 2018 ( udldigital.de [accessed April 16, 2019]).